Cigar-wrapper-cutting machine.



No. 683,272. Patenfed Sept. 24, l90l. w. s. GLEIM.

CIGAR WRAPPER CUTTING MACHINE.

(Application filed July 19, 1901.

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Patented Sept. 24, I90I. W. S. GLEIM.

CIGAR WRAPPER CUTTING MACHINE.

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(Application filed July 19, 1901.)

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WILLIAM STONER GLEIM, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

ClGAR-WRAPPER-CUTTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,272, datedSeptember 24, 1901. Application filed July 19, 1901. $erial No. 68,912.(No model.)

To all whom, it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM STONER GLEIM, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster andStateof Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements inCigar-Wrapper-Outting Machines, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

This invention has for its object to provide novel details ofconstruction for a cigar-wrappercutting machine which will simplify,cheapen, and render more convenient such a device.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts, as is hereinafter described, and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a partly-sectional side view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is aplan View of the same, and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional viewsubstantially on the line 3 3 in Fig. 2.

This improved cigar-wrapper-cutting machine is of a class whereinexhaustion of air is produced below a cutter that is shaped on its edgesimilar to the margin of a properlycut cigar-wrapper, whereby thewrapper material is held by air-pressure thereon in position over thehollow cutter or die, such machine also being provided with a swingingle- Ver carrying one or more rollers, which may be passed over thecuttingdie after a leaf of wrapper material is placed over said die andby enforced contact with said material cut a wrapper therefrom.

My invention provides new details of construction for the die mechanismof awrappercutting machine of the class indicated, also for theroller-supports on the swinging lever, and novel convenient means forcontrolling air exhaustion by footpressure, so as to greatly facilitatethe proper operation of the wrapper-cutting machine.

In the drawings, 10 indicates a fiat table, which is supportedhorizontally at a proper 5%) height from the floor by a suitable frame.

(Not shown.) In a preferably rectangular aperture formed in the table 10the exhaustion-chamber 11 is hung by engagement of the border-flange athereon with the table at the top edge of its aperture. A platen 12,consisting of a flat plate, is seated upon the table 10 over the opentop of the exhaustionchamber 11 and is removably held thereon by screws1).

A hollow die 13, having a continuous vertical wall, is provided, andsaid wall, which at the upper edge is beveled to remove its outer cornerand provide a cutting edge 0 at the inner corner thereof, is given suchform on the cutting edge as will adapt it to cut a cigarwrapper ofcorrect form. The die 13 seats upon the bottom wall of the exhaustionchamber 11 at a nearly central point and is held in place by the screwsd, its cutting edge 0 projecting through a slightly -larger con--forming orifice 6, formed transversely in the plate 12. A stripper-plate14 is loosely fitted in the die 13, havinga similar peripheral form tothat of the cutting edge 0, and from the stripper-plate there extenddownwardly the similar guide-rods 15,which are aiiixed thereto by theirupper ends and pass vertically down and loosely through perforations inthe bottom wall of the exhaustion-chamber 11, the lower projecting endsof the guide-rods having nuts g thereon, which limit the upward movementof the rods. Upon each guide-rod 15 a coiled spring 16 is mounted, theopposite ends of which respectively contact with the lower side of thestripper-plate and upper side of the bottom wall of the chamber 11, saidsprings by their expansion holding the stripper-plate elevated, so thatits upper surface isin the same plane with the edge e onthe die 13. Asshown in Figs. 2 and 3, the stripperplate 14 is foraminated through itsarea, these spaced perforations h being of small size.

A pressure-lever 17 is pivoted by one end upon the table 10 or on anextension from the exhaustion-chamber 11, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2,the hub i of the lever, which is engaged by the pivot-bolt't",being ofsuch height as will dispose the body of the lever a proper distanceabove the platen 12 when the lever is swung over the platen.

Two similar hanger-arms18, having mainly cylindrical form,are looselyheld spaced apart a suitable distance by the engagement of theirupperportions within two vertical perforations in the body of the lever17 near its free end. on which end a handle-knob 17 is preferablyformed. An adjusting-nut 19 is screwed upon the threaded body of eachhanger-arm 18 and positioned near an enlargement m, formed on the lowerend of the arm. Upon each hanger arm 18 a coiled spring 20 is looselymounted and rests upon the nut 19, said springs having contact at theirupper ends with the lower surface of the pressurelever 17. hanger-arms18, thickening bosses 02 may be formed on the upper side of the lever17, and the perforations in the lever wherein the arms areloose'ly heldcontinue through said bosses. The hanger-arms 18 extend above the bossesn and receive the adjusting-nuts 19, that are screwed upon them, saidnuts seating upon the tops of the bosses n. The end portions of thehanger-arms 18 that project above the adj listing-nuts 19 are axiallyslotted, and in said slot-s a keeper-bar 21 is removably held by theloose engagement of its ends in said slots.

In each of the hub-like enlargements m on the lower ends of thehanger-arms 18 a threaded end portion of a journal-stud 22 is screwed,

1 that the alined journal-studs 22 have clear-- ance at their adjacentends and that the rollers 2?, also avoid contact with each other.

A tubular exhaust-pipe 24 extends from an air-exhauster device of anypreferred type (not shown) and is held beneath the table 10 by a securedengagement of its upwardly-bent end 24? with the table, this end of theexhaustpipe having open communication with the exhaust-fchamber 11within the space occupied by the hollow die 13. troduced into theexhaust-pipe 24, and this valve, that is held to slide across the boreof said 'pipe, projects downwardly from the pipe I To the a suitabledistance, as shown at 26. lower side of the exhaust-pipe 24 the upperends of two contractile springs 27 are connected, and at their lowerends said springs are attached upon the gate extension 26, the

tensional force of the springsserving to normally close the gate-valveacross the bore of the exhaust-pipe 24.

Atreadle-lever 28 is hinged by one end upon the floor A beneath or nearthe table 10, and upon the opposite end of the treadle-lever thelowerend of a suitable connecting-link 29 is aflixed, the upper end ofsaid link being attached to the dependingportion 26 of the To affordguided support for the A gate-valve 26 is ingate-valve 26, and itwill beseen that by footpressure the operator of the machine can control theexhaustion of air as may be required for the effective operation of themachine.

In operating the improved cigar-wrappercutting device the leaf materialfrom which a wrapper is to be cut is spread smoothly upon thestripper-plate 14,and is thus held man ually for an instant or until thesimultaneous opening of the gate-valve 26 a proper degree serves toexhaust air from the interior space in the hollow die 13, which willdraw the leaf closely upon the stripper-plate. The lever 17 is now swungacross the platen 12, which will cause the rollers 23 to bear yieldinglyupon the leaf and cut a wrapper therefrom, the stripperplate 14 beingslightly depressed, so that the cutting edge 0 of the hollow die 13 mayshear the leaf material with a smooth out. Upon removal of the lever 17from over the die 13 the marginal portion of the leaf material may bereadily separated from the out wrapper,

which will be released from the cutting edge of the die 13 by theelevation of the springpressed stripper-plate 14.

IhWill be seen that the spring-pressed rollers 23, that are held inlateral alinement by the keeper-bar 21, may receive independent verticaladjustment, and thus be adapted to more perfectly engage with all partsof the cutting edge 0, and this is found to be particularly advantageousin case this edge of the die becomes slightly untrue on account ofgrinding the bevel edge of the die to sharp- ,en it.

The stripper-plate 14 is of great service, as it enables the operator tohold 1 the leaf stretched thereon, and thus insure proper form, theexhaustionof air through the stripper-plate conducing to such a resultin an obvious manner, the subsequent elevation of the plate releasingthe out wrapper from the die.

The provision of the valve26 and means for automatically closing it andits operation by foot-pressure greatly aids the operator to execute alarge amount of work rapidly and in a perfect manner.

Having thus described my invention, I 7

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Theeombinat-ion,with a table, a depend ing exhaustion-chamber thereon, anda hel-- low die in said chamber, having a sharp top edge, of a leverpivoted at one end onthe table, spaced'adjustable and spring-pressedarms depending from the lever above the die, and having axial slots intheir upper ends, a laterally-extended journal-stud on the lower end ofeach arm, a roller held to rotate on each journal-stud, and a keeper-barloosely held at its ends in the axial slotsformed in the upper ends ofthe arms.

2. The combination, with the roller-sup ports, comprising apivotedlever, hangerarms loosely held in spaced perforations in the axial slotsin the arms, said bar holding I0 the lever near its free end, said armshaving the journal-studs laterally alined. each an axial slot in theupper end, and ad- In testimony whereof I have signed my justing-nutsmounted on the arms, of a coiled name to this specification in thepresence of 5 spring on each arm seated on a nut and beartwo subscribingwitnesses.

ing upon the lever, a laterally-projected jour- WILLIAM STONER GLEIM.nal-stud on the lower end of each arm, a roller \Vitnesses: looselymounted and held uponeach stud, WM. D. ZELL,

and a keeper-bar engaged near its ends in JOHN S. GLEIM.

